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World War II Timeline by Austin Lewis

By lewisaw

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

  • Italy Invades Ethiopia

  • Germany and Italy Sign a Treaty of

    Germany and Italy Sign a Treaty of

    Cooperation, beginning the Axis Powers
  • Germany and Japan Sign an Agreement

    Germany and Japan Sign an Agreement

    to work together against the USSR

  • Japan Invades China,

    initiating WWII in the Pacific

  • Italy Invades Albania

  • Germany and the USSR Sign a

    Germany and the USSR Sign a

    nonaggression agreement
  • World War II Officially Begins

    World War II Officially Begins

    with Germany invading Poland

  • Great Britain and France Declare

    war on Germany

  • The USSR Invades Finland

  • Germany Invades Denmark and Norway

  • Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

  • The United States Declare War on Japan

  • Japan Takes Singapore and the East Indies

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Battle of Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

  • "Island Hopping" Begins

    "Island Hopping" Begins

  • Battle of Philippine Sea

    Battle of Philippine Sea

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

  • Roosevelt Dies, Truman Becomes President

    Roosevelt Dies, Truman Becomes President

  • Germany Surrenders to the Allies and the USSR

    Germany Surrenders to the Allies and the USSR

    shortly after the suicide of Hitler
  • The United States Bombs Hiroshima

    The United States Bombs Hiroshima

  • The United States Bombs Nagasaki

    The United States Bombs Nagasaki

  • World War II Officially Ends

    World War II Officially Ends

    with the surrender of Japan

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